I've seen the anime and read the manga. I found the anime to be nothing special, I didn't like the voiceacting, it wasn't as funny as the manga and there wasn't a lot of memorable music. you should give the manga a try though
here's a link to all 33 volumes of flame of recca.FOR manga
you can try downloading just the first volume to see what its like (even though it gets much better later on) using azureus.
oh and if you don't have a image viewing program you can get a really good one here. CDisplay

The manga side story will probably be a movie or an OAV. And we've started the "rescue sasuke" story arc. So yay.

I'm not that impressed wtih bleach yet, mostly because the manga is awesome and the anime is....less than awesome. There are too many little things that were simply outstanding in the manga that were taken out in the anime. But it's not as bad as Tenjo Tenge, who's anime I hate with a passion.

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~There's a Door Here, But It Will Not Break~
~There's a Stone There, But It Won't Remain~
~Up There's a Heaven Now, But It Will Not Wait~
~And The Lies There, The Scent Of It, Just Too Much~

I cant wait for bleach to reach the Soul Society arc (ill call it this so i dont spoil anyone). Bleach actually starts off quite slow(but nice) in both the manga and anime, but when it starts to take off it becomes more than great.

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"Only those with narrow minds fail to see that the definition of Impossible is "Lack of imagination and incentive"" - DUNE:BJ

true. The anime seems to have removed most of the "Inoue has a crush on Ichigo part", so they are probably trying to control the quantity of Inoue supporters since we all know hes gonna end up with Rukia (most probably).

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"Only those with narrow minds fail to see that the definition of Impossible is "Lack of imagination and incentive"" - DUNE:BJ

true. The anime seems to have removed most of the "Inoue has a crush on Ichigo part", so they are probably trying to control the quantity of Inoue supporters since we all know hes gonna end up with Rukia (most probably).

No, Inoue ends up with Ichigo, Rukia ends up with...what's his face, one of the retrieval squad. The only shinigami that actually cares about her after her sensei died.

They make the cannon lines very clear and distinct.

Well, nevermind. It seems that Rukia's alotment is in the air now that Kenji was basically sodomized by Byukaya in Chapter 144, and Inoue seems to be falling closer and closer to Uuryua.

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~There's a Door Here, But It Will Not Break~
~There's a Stone There, But It Won't Remain~
~Up There's a Heaven Now, But It Will Not Wait~
~And The Lies There, The Scent Of It, Just Too Much~